Lois Elinoff Rubin received a Doctor of Arts degree from Carnegie-Mellon University. Thereafter, she worked for thirty-one years at Penn State as professor of English, teaching women’s and multi-cultural literature. During that time, she published a dozen articles on composition and literature and edited the collection “Connections and Collisions: Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Women’s Writing.” She is now preparing for publication the manuscript “Writing the Life Cycle: The Poetry of Maxine Kumin, Linda Pastan, and Alicia Ostriker.”